Fairs are art dealings’ “new paradigm.” So 30-year veteran Chicago dealer Douglas Dawson told me at SoFa West Thursday, voicing a sentiment I heard through more than a dozen dealer interviews at the fair. “Hoping to …

From September 16th through October 23rd –  only four and a half weeks- three brand new dogs will fire up the art fair race faster than you can say barbie. Because everything is bigger in Texas, …

In 1976-78 while the rest of us were watching Saturday Night Fever and listening to Stayin’ Alive, some hard-at-work California painters were closing in on the relationship between surface and illusion, form and anti-matter, and the …

The Due Return – the 75-foot-long beached ship-interactive installation that dominates Munoz-Waxman Gallery at CCA Santa Fe, and around which an elaborate narrative, constructed by the Meow Wolf collective, and populated by the public, is taking place. The exhibition with related special events has been extended til August 21.

Griselda, the tale from which Vivaldi’s Opera (and its brilliant new interpretation by director Peter Sellars and conductor Grant Gershon at Santa Fe Opera) derives, is an old one: 14th century, from Bocaccio’s Decameron, with an overlay of Canterbury Tales and wives harried beyond measure.

1. Because a talking cowboy is even better than a laconic cowboy The myth of the ranch man wearing a slight bow to his legs and striding with stature of the free range is longstanding in …

In Santa Fe day laborers congregate near the Guadalupe Chapel at the north end of town. In Los Angeles, where painter John Sonsini lives and works, day laborer immigrants constitute a body of portrait subjects who …

Art Santa Fe is a Charlotte Jackson joint; the art dealer based in the Railyard business district has been at this running of the fair for 11 years.

If you live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and you have not seen this news: Please go to this link at NMFireinfo dot wordpress dot com. Beginning at 1:45 p.m. Mountain Time evacuation was beginning to …

While reading the paid NY Times obits yesterday I read Robert Miller’s with interest. He was a gallery owner before the somewhat egregious term, gallerist, was coined. He tried being a painter but discovered he perhaps …